Historically a dead end, but in UAD, the battlecruiser hulls can go stupid fast. And... it's the apex predator. There are no ghost battles with a 38kn, 16.9" BC. And I'll happily carry only 6 guns, 3x2 ABX, to achieve that. My favourite class.

42:18 "This thing turns like a brick" Bricks can swim? Made my day 👍👏👏👏 And thank you very much for this guide and all the details you have to think about, if you want to build a ship 👍 Greetings from the north of Germany

The battle cruiser which you built today is so beautiful and powerful.

Also, it's ironic that you mentioned fast battleships in the battlecruiser section, and then proceeded to go and make what is basically a fast battleship.

I often use BCs as my only capital ships mid to late game as I can get what I would need on a BB from a BC, while having a faster and smaller ship

With the modern BC hull, which you can usually get around 1920, a (relatively) cost effective battlecruiser in the 40kt speed range is absolutely possible. In fact, they tend to be my go to. I only find BBs useful in the first few engagements of a campaign. After you inflict the initial losses on the AI, they never seem to recover to the point where you see more than one or two large ships at a time. My BCs tend to handle enemy BBs without issue. I tend to use triple 12s in 4 turrets. AP from these do plenty of damage while the HE can handle anything else. You get the mark IV and V 12" guns long before you get higher marks of late BB caliber guns. The accuracy and volume of fire devastate the mid-late game small ship rushes that the AI is so fond of. So you get a ship with a broadside weight of fire comparable to BBs, with higher accuracy, higher rate of fire, and enough speed to chase down running DDs.

30:00 for the most valuable tip I have heard for this entire game, and something I feel really dumb for not knowing: how to force-place turrets when the game is snapping the placement to a preset location. Maybe not the most important tip in retrospect, but the most meaningful.

Stealth: 7.5 km, or 7500m “7.5m. No, wait!”

Still says battleship stealth, Gotta watch those titles

For batrlecrusers I tend to arm and set up mine to be the “pocket battleships” and formidable to outshoot battleships so they can dog fight the lot. Hell I even got battlecrusers to take out battleships by firepower alone. Aka jack of all trades is how I build the lot. Well I try for all of the classes so they can pull off upset kills and the whole works.

May we all have a moment of silence for the best ship stealth has built, the Mars. Gone because of updates but never forgotten.

Couple of points: Personally I start with the armour, get the protection I want, so I am not just going “well, got another 200t, give it 3/10th of an inch more …” but that is my design style. Forced draft gives you the most exhaust in the smallest (deck) space, but balanced is usually cheaper and weights less, if you can afford the space. The game does show you long-range bonuses: Select your ship and then move the mouse around. Watch the top of the buffs and debuffs windows to see the long range buff helping out for the distance your mouse pointer is at from your ship. And if you mouse over an identified enemy, you get to see angle on bow, ricochet chance, chance for side/deck hit, shell penetration h/v under these circumstances and effective armour to be penetrated h/v at the current moment.

AFAIK Battlecruiser should be Battleship weaponry on smaller,faster but less protected hull.. I use them like that. If i have a BB with 16 inch guns, sh*t ton of armor and survivability i´ll made a BC with the same 16 inch guns (less of them) but with less armor and faster to escort it... I dont need BC to hunt small ships. I have my CL for that. I just want cheapper version of BB that can take on other heavy ships. But i must admit it migh be a job for heavy cruiser. I didnt see the reason to make one.yet.

could use a pen tutorial like what type of shells is the best to pen cruisers special light cruises since they seem to be imune to pen

I think the long range accuracy bonus % from Stereoscopic RFs is the increased chances to hit at maximum weapon range. The chance to hit bonus thus starts at zero % from point blank range and increases up to max range, hopefully beating the total accuracy of a Coincindence RF at some range point before max range. That's how I see it.

My favourite design philosophy eith the BC1 is to build them to around 32kn, 9.2", or 12" if I'm going for a heavier build. I place a bunch of 3.1"/[45/45/42/40/40 depending on mk variance] along the beam tight to the superstructure, then narrow the beam to improve the efficiency, increase the draught to increase the range, and if there is space in my doctrine for it, give them a pair of forward firing torps either side of B turret. Weight balancing is fixed with tenths of an inch of fore/aft belt/deck armour if the value is less than 2%, and moving turrets etc is too much hassle. Adding extra armour to one end of the ship can be a very handy way to fix the offset and get an increase in protection. My idea with the 9" BC1 layout is to up armour the bow and always stay bow in to anything that can hurt me while I obliterate everything that can't. Then I switch to quick-fusing, high-yield HE and blow huge holes in superstructure, towers, secondaries, and turret tops if they're thin enough. If there is no backup I wait until their ability to perform fire-control is sufficiently degraded by HE, and if they somehow haven't burnt to death or taken a flooding hit to their extended sections, I close to finish with high-penetration AP designed for killing very heavily armoured cruisers from medium-range. The bonus with a 32kt ship is you can go 24kts at 2/3rds, which is the optimal engagement speed, and also happens to be the speed of a fast BB in this era. As soon as you get into optimal range for your ideal armour/firepower profile interaction with the enemy ship, you can cut a ton of speed and in turn gain a huge sailing speed bonus. Alternatively you can keep going zoom and make use of the enemies debuff due to high target speed if there are multiple credible threats which could engage you. Blap the supporting vessels that require attention from the main guns first, leaving the rest to the 3.1"/40-45s and battering the battleships. A decisive shaping operating makes it much easier to invade the enemies citadel with 9.2" AP. Never under-estimate the power of careful attrition against a battleship to facilitate a victory. Caution is advised regarding your armour profile relationship at all times.

really hate that battlecruiser hull

In my experience the BC/Large cruiser hulles are good foundations if you try to win a campaign with a universal ship. I have not yet done it in v1.3 BETA as i do a normal playthrough with a somewhat balanced fleet containing all assets. Yet from what see available i think it is still possible with v1.3 to go the universal ship route. Basic rule of thumb, make is as fast as efficiently possible - indicated by the the jump in weight increase you notice while increasing the ship speed. Than add most accurate high caliber guns available, increase their diameter as far as no negative effect on base accuracy is shown. Next add solid tower with good +base acc, also add good rangefinder. Protection as high as possible but only as long as neither speed, guns or +acc boni are negatively effected. Usually doesnt need all def tech like barbettes/anti torp/citadell being top end. Secondaries are least important, if space allows. Could say realize what the germans tried with the Deutschland-class of Pocket battleships. Stronger than anything faster and faster than anything stronger. Have done walkthroughts on multiple nations and starting dates with just one such universal ship.

For my Battlecruisers, I tend to go for armour and speed and sacrifice large guns for smaller guns (11 inch) to target CA’s or other battlecruisers with less armour.

My view on an effective battlecruiser desgn is that it needs to outpace a heavy/armoured cruiser (depending on time period) by 2-3 knots, but have larger guns than fitted typically to said cruisers. Given you get AI cruisers with 9+ inch guns, I'd want at least 11s. Armour, again should at least match contemporary heavy/armoured cruisers.

The barbette armor width in the turret armor section was not increased much for the second ship. Is that due to the high likelihood of plunging fire and less chance of flat hits? If that's the case then why is the belt armor so high? Just trying to understand so that I can improve my future ships...

The best thing I can say about this game is read the tool tips. Just cause you watch naval historians and read naval books doesn't mean you know stuff. For instance, I had NO IDEA that each hull had a recommended speed until I watched these videos, and as a result, I was just pulling speeds out of my ass. Every day, I find out something new and go home and redesign a whole bunch of ships.

What background music are you using?

I am in a 1910 campaign, year 1927. I can build the modern US BCs in my campaign. Money is not the problem, the 3 sliders are at maximum and I increase the size my shipyard everytime it finishes. My Naval funds in the bank are increasing by $2 billion each month. My GDP is greater than all other countries combined or very close to that. My problem is total capacity. I am always very close to maximum with new production, repairs and refits. What is the trick to increasing total shipyard capacity so I can make more of these monsters?

Why is matching different calibres in the nation guns bad for accuracy?

1895 Battleship

AMMUNITION DESIGN Having Studied Real Life Military Technology History as a Personal Hobby, for my own Naval Warfare Combat Theory, I like to have "Heavy" High Explosive Shells and "Light" Armor Piercing Shells. ULTIMATE ADMIRAL: DREADNOUGHTS doesn't allow for such Mix Ammunition Designs. The "Heavy" High Explosive Shells will have different Velocity Speed, and different Trajectory Angle, than the "Light" Armor Piercing Shells. - - - - - - - - - - I have been watching "Stealth17 Gaming" UA:D Videos for almost as long as "Stealth17 Gaming" has been downloading his UA:D Videos on KZfaq (actually, around 6 Months after his first download). With the New Update being do recent, I can't say this; but, based on previous Versions of UA:D, both "Stealth17 Gaming" and "BrotherMunro" have had issues with HE Shells Overpenetrating AI Warships regardless of Gun Size. Each Custom Battle Scenario is different from each other. Each Campaign Game is different from each other. Therefore, what one can expect from the AI Warships will be different from Game to Game. As a New UA:D Player (I have yet to play UA:D), I would create HE Ammunition that focuses on Starting Fires and having No Armor Penetration; and, create AP Ammunition that focuses on Maximumizing Armor Penetration and having No Fire Starting Capability; then, based my Gameplay Experience, I would adjust the HE Ammunition Design and AP Ammunition Design. However, AP Shell, and HE Shell, Penetration and Fire Starting Capability are dependent upon your Gun Size & Gun Caliber Versus AI Warship Armor; more than, your AP Shell Design, and your HE Shell Design, versus AI Warship Type. Thus, I would focus on finding the Gun Sizes that work against the AI Warships before trying to perfect AP Shell Design and HE Shell Design. That is me. = = = = = = = = = = AP SHELL AND HE SHELL LOADOUT The Ratio of AP Shells to HE Shells that I would use is dependent upon the Warship Type, and the Gun Size, that I am designing. Even though the 1940 Battlecruiser is designed for going up against AI Battleships, that Battlecruiser (especially, in Campaign Game Scenarios) will being going up against every Warship Type at one time or another. The ratio of AI Battleships and AI Battlecruisers and AI Armored/Heavy Cruisers and AI Light/Protected Cruisers and AI Destroyers and AI Torpedo Boats will vary based on each AI Nation's In-Game Strategy (which varies from Campaign Game to Campaign Game). Therefore, I would have the Main Turret Armament AP Shell-to-HE Shell Ratio being at 50%; or, Favoring more HE Shells. With Custom Scenario Battles, you could create this Battlecruiser; then, pit it against a Random AI Battleship; thus, you could forego HE Shell Design altogether; if, you wish. I wouldn't; but, that is me. Within the Campaign Game, chances of this Battlecruiser Design going Mono Y Mono against an AI Battleship is very small; while, chances of going up against AI CAs and AI CLs and AI DDs and AI TBs are very high; especially, in masse. Having a Secondary Armament is a good idea; especially, for warding off AI DDs and AI TBs. With the Secondary Armament Battlecruiser Design, I would have the Secondary Armament be 100% HE Shells; or, Favoring HE Shells over AP Shells. AP SHELL & HE SHELL USAGE I prefer using HE Shells for Long Range Combat; while, using AP Shells for Short Range Combat. "Stealth17 Gaming" asks, "¿What is Long Range Combat?" All Guns have a Point Black Range and a Short Range and a Long Range and Extreme Long Range. Extreme Long Range is the Maximum Distance that a Gun can hit a Target; but, won't do any Significant Damage. This is typically considered as being Non-Combat Range; and, shooting at an Enemy at this range is wasting Valuable Ammunition. Long Range is Maximum Combat Range down to 50% Maximum Combat Range. Point Blank Range is from Gun Barrel Tip to some distance within which you can directly point the Gun at the Target and hit the Target. Short Range occupies the distance between Point Blank Range and Long Range. A Gun with a Maximum Combat Range of 1,000km will have a Long Range between 500km and 1,000km; while, the Short Range will be under 500km; while, Point Blank Range may max out somewhere between 50km and 100km. Naval Artillery Gun Maximum Combat Range is dependent upon Gun Size Barrel Caliber and Ammunition Design.

20:13 ; Stealth17: “MY PEN** TOO GOOD” Shame on you sharing such filth on a platform with children present!

I think the titel is a bit off or is it intended? @Stealth17Gaming